Improvement in fastenings for butter-buckets



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

WILHELM G. A. THIELEPAPE AND HERMAN KROESOHELL, OF CHICAGO, ILL.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR BUTTER-BUCKETS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,334, dated December 29, 1874; application filed October 2, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, VVILHELM O. A. THIELEPAPE and HERMAN KRoEscHnLL, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented an Improvement in Fastenin to Secure Covers to Wooden Vessels, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of this invention relates to a new and useful fastening for wooden vessels, such as butter-tubs and others, so arranged that while in transit the cover will be held tightly in place, it may yet be readily removed at will and without injury. In shipping butterin tubs, or other merchandise in wooden vessels, it is usual to fasten the covers by nailing, so that when the covers are removed the liability to their being damaged or destroyed is great. With this style of fastening the cover may he removed and replaced without damage as often as desired.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a single stave of a tub, with a section of cover secured thereto by our improved fastening. Fig. 2 is a similar view of similar parts, with the fastening disengaged.

Like letters refer to like parts in each figure.

1n the drawings, A represents a stave of a tub, and B a section of cover to the same, with an outwardlyprojecting rim, to which is secured the hook or fastening O, which engages with the eye D, secured to the stave of the tub.

It will be noticed that the hook is constructed with a return bend, a, to form a strong spring on the part, which receives the strain, and engages with the upper end of the eye, thus forming a strong cheap, and durable hook, easily disengaged, and which will firmly hold the parts together. Two of such hooks are secured to opposite sides of the cover, which, when hooked into correspondin g eyes, will draw the cover tight to the upper rim of the tub.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the cover B, of the spring-hook fastening C secured thereto constructed with a bend, a, to form a strong spring, and engaging with the eye D on the bucket A, as set forth.

WILHELM O. A. THIELEPAPE. HERMAN KROESOHELL.

Witnesses:

ABRAHAM GOTTLIEBFF, WVM. B. Low. 

